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New editor named for Columbus newspaper

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A veteran newspaper editor has been named to the top newsroom position at The Republic in Columbus and another editor has become a regional manager for it and other newspapers.

The Republic reports that Tom Jekel took over as its editor this week. Jekel most recently was publisher and editor of The Times-Reporter in New Philadelphia, Ohio.

Jekel was editor or general manager of the Noblesville Ledger and Topics Newspapers from 1993 to 2006, when he became general manager/community newspapers for Indianapolis Star Media, the parent company those newspapers.

Scarlett Syse is now the group editor for The Republic, the Daily Journal of Franklin, The Tribune in Seymour and the Brown County Democrat. All are owned by Columbus-based Home News Enterprises.

Syse became the Daily Journal's editor in 2000.

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